Bug 9815

Summary:	uninstall pulseaudio kill gnome
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	gaia ouranos <gaia.ouranos>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, mageia
Version:	Cauldron	Keywords:	NEEDINFO
Target Milestone:	Mageia 3
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:		CVE:
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Description gaia ouranos 2013-04-21 11:25:14 CEST

Hello
When uninstall pulseaudio (with mageia 3 beta 3 or back):

#urpme pulseaudio

Automaticly, with dependencies, gnome also is uninstall!
It is a choice of packaging man, but is a real probleme. I want test other sound system, and i don't want pulse audio. It is two differents project.

I understand the technic problem, after uninstall pulseaudio. But it's the user's choice, and it could not imposing by mageia dependencies!

I hate this choice.

my opinion!

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

gaia ouranos 2013-04-21 11:26:14 CEST

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 3

Comment 1 Sander Lepik 2013-04-21 11:46:35 CEST

About which dependency are you talking? I didn't find any direct dependency on pulseaudio from Gnome.

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => sander.lepik
Source RPM: pulseaudio => (none)

Comment 2 gaia ouranos 2013-04-21 21:04:18 CEST

I have not search dependency in construction of rpm.

But when uninstall pulseaudio, gnome3 is uninstall too. Two test, in two machine confirm this.

I have suppose, a choice by man packaging rpm, after discussion in French Mageia Forum(MLO). With your answer, It's maybe a bad supposition.

If you don't see direct dependency, may be a bug?
I have not competence to answer at this question?

Gaiac

Comment 3 Dave Hodgins 2013-04-21 21:30:20 CEST

# urpmq --whatrequires-recursive pulseaudio|sort -u|grep -v pulseaudio
anjuta
anjuta-extras
gnome-bluetooth
gnome-control-center
gnome-panel
gnome-shell
gnome-tweak-tool
gstreamer0.10-pulse
gstreamer1.0-pulse
idjc
nautilus-sendto-bluetooth
paprefs
pavucontrol
task-gnome
task-gnome-minimal
wammu

If you just want to uninstall pulseaudio, use "rpm -e --nodeps pulseaudio".

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins

Comment 4 gaia ouranos 2013-04-21 21:55:43 CEST

Thanks. I know this manipulation (--nodeps!)

With your first manipulation, you confirm, it's normal that gnome uninstall too.
 
It's not a revolutionary thinks for mageia, but i think it's not a good package choice.

thanks for your answer.

P.S:sorry my english is poor

Comment 5 Manuel Hiebel 2013-04-21 23:13:46 CEST

well it's an upstream choice (like networkmanager), and btw you can disable pulseaudio if you don't want it.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX